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| American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) Falcons and Caracaras (Falconidae) | |
| Amerikansk Tårnfalk ~ Cernícalo Americano ~ Sparvfalk | |
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Unlike other falcons this species is not possible to age in the field. Once fledged the plumages are very similar, and apparently even more so with the females.
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2008-11-13 Campos el Molino (Aguascalientes), Mexico Female. |
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2008-12-19 Parque Héroes (Aguascalientes), Mexico Male. |
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2009-04-09 Presa Rodriguez (agu), Mexico Male. Male with beige breast and few black flank spots. White outer rectries with black bands is also only shown by the male. |
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2010-07-25 Presa La Colorada (agu), Mexico Male. Male. Local breeder. Difficult to comment anything intelligent about age from this distance and angle. |
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563
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2011-12-11 Arroyo El Trapiche (col), Mexico Male. |
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720
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2012-03-10 Camino El Chanal (Colima), Mexico Female. The same as 719? |
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719
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2012-03-14 Camino El Chanal (Colima), Mexico Female. Female with prey. Only a winter guest in the area. |
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2012-11-03 Tapalpa Country Club (jal), Mexico Female. |
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2013-01-29 Península Campos (Manzanillo), Mexico Male. |
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2019-02-06 Rancho Primavera (El Tuito - jal), Mexico Female. Using Sibley to sex this species can lead to confusion, since he has illustrated the heads of the male and the female quite differently. This bird has a head pattern very much like the male in his book, but the general plumage pattern, with widely streaked breast and no gray in the wing, tells that this bird is a female. So females can show the same head pattern as males, you see the rufous crown and buff nape which is not included in his illustration of the female. |
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2020-01-05 Mazatlán (sin), Mexico Male. |